News of the week of January 24, 2012

Meeting Report

We played:

• DUNDEE (God moves in a mysterious way)
• CAITHNESS (O for a closer walk with god)
• Ruffo,
  Trinitas
  in Unitate, a canon
• Cavendish,
  Come,
  gentle Swains
• Mundy,
  Lightly
  she whipped o’re the dales,
• Byrd,
  This
  sweet and merry month of May,
• Ravenscroft,
  Now
  God be with old Simeon
• Hey
  ho, to the greenwood

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.

Other events

There are several concerts of Renaissance music this
weekend:

• Convivium Musicum is
  playing works of Orlandus Lassus on Saturday, January 28 at 7 PM
  in the
  Cambridge Friends Meeting house and on Sunday, January 29 at at
  4 PM at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Brookline.
• Music for Viols and Friends presents “The Tudor Consort,”
  music from the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, performed
  by mezzosoprano Pamela Dellal, El Dorado Ensemble (Carol Lewis,
  Mai-Lan Broekman, Paul Johnson, Janet Haas and Alice Mroszczyk,
  viols; Olav Chris Henriksen, lute & renaissance guitar) and
  special guest Wendy Gillespie, viol. The concert features songs,
  dances, fantasies & solos by Henry VIII himself, van Wilder,
  Ferrabosco I, Tallis, Byrd, Johnson, Morley & others. It will be
  Friday, January 27, 2012 at 8 pm in Lindsay Chapel, First Church in
  Cambridge, Congregational, Cambridge MA, and also Sunday, January 29,
  2012 at 3 pm at the Somerville Museum.
• Exultemus is playing
  double choir music for voices and brass on Saturday, January 28
  at 8pm in the University Lutheran Church, Harvard Square, and on
  Sunday, January 29, at 3pm at the First Lutheran Church of Boston.